DHAMMALOKA DAY
Date: Saturday 19 February 2011
Time: 2.30-6pm (tea/coffee available from 2pm)
Place: Boole Lecture Theatre 3, UCC, College Road, Cork.
Enquiries: Dhammaloka@ucc.ie
Tel: +353 (0)21-490-2773
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PROGRAMME
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ABOUT DHAMMALOKA
See the YouTube introduction to Dhammaloka Day at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mUil5bVPsI&feature=player_embedded
'Dhammaloka Day' celebrates the centenary of "The Irish Buddhist's" 1911 trial for sedition in colonial Burma. It is also the Irish launch of the special issue of the journal Contemporary Buddhism (Vol. 11, no.2, 2010) on the remarkable and unjustly forgotten figure of U Dhammaloka, a Dublin-born vagrant worker who crossed the world to become one of the first western Buddhist monks in Asia.
Autodidact, atheist, temperance campaigner and Buddhist revivalist, Dhammaloka was supported in Japan by Letitia Jephson of Mallow, denounced in Singapore by journalist Edward Alexander Morphy of Killarney and tried for sedition in Burma by Justice Daniel H. R. Twomey of Carrigtwohill.
Famous throughout South-East Asia in his time, Dhammaloka travelled extensively between 1900-1914 in colonial Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaya, Japan, China, Ceylon, India and Nepal and beyond.
This unique event features an international line-up of scholars of Buddhism including Prof. Thomas Tweed from Austin, Texas (author of The American Encounter with Buddhism), Dr Alicia Turner from Toronto (editor of the Journal of Burma Studies), Dr Elizabeth Harris from Liverpool (author of Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter), Dr Laurence Cox from Maynooth (co-editor of Ireland's New Religious Movements) and Prof. Brian Bocking from Cork (chair of Ireland's first Department of the Study of Religions).
For more information on U Dhammaloka 'The Irish Buddhist' see the special issue of the Routledge journal Contemporary Buddhism Vol.11, no.2, Autumn 2010. Contemporary Buddhism is available on-line to UCC staff and students via the Boole library catalogue.
Copies of the Contemporary Buddhism special issue on U Dhammaloka will be on sale at the Dhammaloka Day event, at the special price of €20.
Individual articles in Contemporary Buddhism are available on-line (payment required) from the Routledge website at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rcbh
For further background information on Dhammaloka see also:
· Laurence Cox’s research note: "Lawrence O'Rourke / U Dhammaloka: working-class Irish freethinker, and the first European bhikkhu?" in Journal of Global Buddhism 10 (2009):135-144, available on-line (free) at http://www.globalbuddhism.org/10/cox09.htm
· Brian Bocking’s UCC inaugural lecture of January 2010: ‘The Study of Religions in a Smart Society’ at http://asx.heanet.ie/ucc/Feb10/study-religions-smart-society
